TY - BOOK AU - Gurche,John TI - Shaping humanity: how science, art, and imagination help us understand our origins SN - 9780300182026 U1 - 569.9 23 PY - 2013///] CY - New Haven, London PB - Yale University Press KW - Fossil hominids KW - Human beings KW - Origin KW - Human evolution N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-337) and index; Beginnings : Sahelanthropus tchadensis (6 to 7 million years ago) --; Walkers and climbers : Australopithecus afarensis (3.6 to 2.9 million years ago) --; The impossible discovery : Australopithecus africanus (3.3 to 2. 1 million years ago) --; The paradoxical specialist : Paranthropus boisei (2.3. to 1.0 million years ago) --; Interlude: Transitional hominins and the origin of Homo --; The traveler : Homo erectus (1.8 to 0.1 million years ago) --; A symbolic animal : Homo heidelbergensis (0.7 to 0.2 million years ago) --; The other : Homo neanderthalensis (0.25 to 0.027 million years ago) --; The unlikely survivor : Homo floresiensis (0.095 to 0.017 million years ago) --; Linked : Homo sapiens (0.2 million years ago -- ?) --; Endings ER -